Quote Originally Posted by spl65t View Post
Hi Lads,
first time poster on here. This weekend going out to possibly purchase our 1st watercooled VW. Tossing up between the diesel Polo with sports option pack or the GTI ? Was going to head to McGrath @ Liverpool. Just after some feed back from real life experience & what would you buy ? Car is for dropping kids off to school and shopping trips etc.. (Wife)
Cheers Linz
Avoid the diesel unless you are doing a lot of KM's and a lot of longer trips - otherwise you will get poor fuel economy and pre-mature issues with the DPF (diesel particulate filter). Diesels do not like short trips and stop start traffic. In this case, a 77TSI with sports pack would be much more suitable. In fact, the economy and torque of the 77TSI is so good that you could argue that the TDI has no real use in the Polo range.